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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Fix two documentation typos

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2019, 14:48 UTC
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"Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> I noticed a couple typos while reading through some manpages. 
>
> First was "...if it is does not..." which just contained an extraneous "is".
Thanks.
> Then I noticed a "can not" and updated that and other occurrences in
> Documentation to cannot. The glossary sentence with "can not" was
> "Consequently, an object can not be changed." To me, that reads like "it is

Hmph, I am not a native speaker, but I have to say that this is the first time I heard that "I can not drive" to mean "I have a choice of not driving (even though I am capable of driving)".

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  1. 0/1 Fix two documentation typosMark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  2. 1/1 doc: typo: s/can not/cannot/ and s/is does/does/Mark Rushakoff via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2019
  4. Jeff KingAug 3, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2019

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